{"id":28106,"date":"2025-05-01T21:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/local-elections-2025-where-can-i-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:15:30","slug":"local-elections-2025-where-can-i-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/local-elections-2025-where-can-i-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Local elections 2025: Where can I vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><b id=\"polls-have-closed-in-local-elections-being-held-for-23-councils-and-six-mayors-in-england.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 jpoiOL\">Polls have closed in local elections being held for 23 councils and six mayors in England.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Around a third of electors in England were eligible to vote, and more than 1,600 councillors will be elected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Voting has also been taking place for a Westminster by-election in the Cheshire seat of <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8d4yvg1lzgo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\">Runcorn and Helsby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Results are expected in the early hours of Friday 2 May, beginning with the mayoral contests in North Tyneside, Doncaster, Hull and East Yorkshire, and the West of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Use our tool to find out the results of elections near you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Most of the councils up for election are county councils &#8211; large authorities like Lancashire and Kent that look after services including social care, education, road maintenance and libraries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In parts of England with no district councils, like in Cornwall, Doncaster and Buckinghamshire, local authorities are responsible for the full range of services &#8211; these also include bin collections, public housing and planning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mayors in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Doncaster, North Tyneside, and the West of England are up for election. While in two areas &#8211; Hull and East Yorkshire, and Greater Lincolnshire &#8211; voters have been electing a mayor for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cd925jk27k0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls have closed in local elections being held for 23 councils and six mayors in England. Around a third of electors in England were eligible to vote, and more than 1,600 councillors will be elected. Voting has also been taking place for a Westminster by-election in the Cheshire seat of Runcorn and Helsby. Results are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[2833,1591,1418],"class_list":["post-28106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-elections","tag-local","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28108,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28106\/revisions\/28108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}